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The Wisconsin Assembly gets first crack at the $76 billion state budget Wednesday, beginning debate on the two-year spending plan that's more than two months late but could quickly be sent on to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature.

The owner of a Mequon-based landscaping company was sentenced to six months in prison recently for not paying employees prevailing wages on public projects. Last week Scott Devereux, owner of Cedarburg Landscaping Co., was sentenced by a judge in the ...

Republican state Sen. Leah Vukmir made it official Thursday that she's running for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, casting herself as the only true conservative in a primary contest that includes a former Democrat.

Talks have wrapped up in what the head of the state’s largest construction union calls the toughest negotiating sessions he can recall in his 26 years on staff at Local 139 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

A union-aligned contractors group released a report Monday finding that amount of municipal contracts going to out-of-state companies increased by 53 percent in the first four months since Wisconsin rolled back its prevailing-laws this year.